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Wax Lyrical Hiring for Warehouse Assistant – Picker/Packer at Lindal in Furness LA12 Full Time
Would you like to join a team that are experts in the picking, packing and dispatch of our gorgeous products?
Do you have an eye for high quality and are you proactive in identifying opportunities that could help us constantly improve what we do and how we do it?
Wax Lyrical is one of the UK’s largest home-fragrance manufacturers; we design and manufacture beautiful luxury scented candles, reed diffusers and private label collections for our global customer base. Our products are a celebration of the finest quality ingredients and local craftsmanship, including unique innovations that demonstrate a deep understanding of our customers’ refined tastes.
We have a dedicated team of employees in the production and marketing of more than 15 million items per year; from creating and testing, through to designing, manufacturing and marketing products and we are looking to recruit additional members to join our Warehouse Team to ensure that our products are delivered to our customers in an accurate, timely, safe and cost efficient manner.
We currently have a permanent vacancy for a Warehouse Assistant at our Dispatch Warehouse in Sowerby Woods, Barrow-in-Furness.
This is a manual job, therefore you will be required to reach and bend. You should be self-motivated as well as a good team player and be able to work under pressure in a fast moving environment. We expect that ideas and suggestions are made so that continuous improvement is part of day to day life in the Warehouse and you will commit to Wax Lyrical’s Values, Policies, Procedures & Objectives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Picking and Packing as part of a team
- Ensuring the stock is correct
- Packing orders to ensure they travel without damages
- To ensure order goes to the correct delivery address
- Read and act on special instructions to avoid delay in delivery e.g. booking in/date required
- Ensure the correct paperwork travels with goods e.g. DGN/Commercial Invoice/Delivery note
- To be able to follow procedures on Sage and relevant carriers software
- Administration tasks for Customers as required
- Ensuring packing lists are filled in accurately
- Ensuring you remain professional when dealing with customers
- To assist with Contracted / Export Bulk orders
- To assist with cycle counts to ensure accuracy of stock
- Deal with stock returns in a timely manner ensuring the correct paperwork is forwarded to the relevant Departments
Everyone Always:
- Ensuring downtime is minimised and looking for ways to continually reduce down time
- Ensuring waste is minimised and looking for ways to continually reduce
- Resolving problems that stop or hinder the picking and packing process and communicating with team leaders if this happens
- Ensuring all required paperwork/recording of information is accurate and completed on time
- Wearing the appropriate level of PPE
- Ensure process documentation exists for all tasks, is accurate, updated regularly and followed
- Recognise and raise NCR’s
- Ensuring the team follows the 5S principles
- Ensure high standards of housekeeping in the area
- Ensuring that ideas and suggestions to that area are made so that continuous improvement is part of day to day life in the Warehouse
- Commit to Wax Lyrical’s Values, Policies, Procedures & Objectives
- Any other duties as required from time to time
Personal Profile:
- Numerate, literate and high levels of attention to detail
- Self-motivated and organised
- Must be able to solve problems
- Computer literate
- Customer focused; puts the customer at the heart of everything they do
- Team player; works well as part of a team
- Committed to CI; continually improving the way we do things; keeping it simple
- Being resilient and able to deal with the demands of the business
- Flexible approach to work
- High standard of work
It is part of Wax Lyrical’s company policy to only employ people who can provide proof that they are eligible to work in the UK (passport or long birth certificate with proof of National Insurance number); without this, you would not be able to start work with us.
Excited about this opportunity and feel you fit the bill or know someone who does? Click to apply now!
Wax Lyrical is an equal opportunity employer and is determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.
